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The word 'wickit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wickitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.23611
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 345.2 19 1

Occurrences of wickit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
intil the sash rope wis this wickit leukin aix. But whit really g on page 85

1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
an brave forbye- an that yon wickit comments were jyst fae that a
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
minie, ah've discovert that a wickit lassie is faur mair frichtsom on page 79
ye get sent tae the jyle fur wickit lassies fur at least forty ye on page 156

4 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
aw his fellness, an he steys wickit til the enn o his days. Hogg' on page 140

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Whit a wickit thing tae say!" grued Alison. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
This wee wickit weel-kent tale on page 29

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
air by the windae, opened yin wickit wee ee and said, 'Noo ye hear on page 1
p o the tassie wi thae bricht wickit wee een. 'Ye're growin ower f on page 4
her chair by the windae. The wickit wee een follaed Geordie close on page 38

3 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
have not gevin ony terror to wickit men to offer this lang tyme b on page 24

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Less Trauchle Nor A Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ttling even tho it wis aw the wickit baist’s ain faut. She didna
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
These wickit men that gaither roon That pi on page 65

1 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
waatched frae the shore wi a wickit grin as ivery yin o them grow
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
saed, "Hoo cum yis hae sitch wickit thochts ïn yer hairt? > ïs on page 9
weemen that haed bin cured o wickit spïrits an ailments. Thair w on page 82
Tha wee lad bothert wi a wickit spïrit on page 86
Tha parable o tha wickit fairmers on page 103

19 matches

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